THE OFFER
“The dream marks are all present,
You should have recognized them sooner.”
Mark Twain
We are sitting in a coffee house, your favorite coffee house- talking. It is the first time that we have met. You have been brought to me for some reason; I can not know the intent of infinity. We have been discussing your interest in walking a real spiritual journey. I have been mostly listening to what you have said, but I have also been waiting for you to let the conversation shift- to where such conversations must go if one is really to do the work of waking up.
Q It is so nice that you want to help the world and help people-
A There is no world, there are no people.
Q What?
A There is no world, there are no people.
Q What about all these people in the coffee shop?
A What about them?
Q They’re people.
A Are they? How do you know that for sure?
Q Because they look like people.
A Well there is the appearance of people. But how do you know that your definition of perception labeled people is correct perception? How do you know your whole perception of what you call the world is not just a giant lie?
Q Well everyone agrees with it.
A Just because everyone agrees with something does not make it the truth. People for thousands of years thought throwing virgins into a volcano was a good idea. Look, when you have a dream at night, you interact with people don’t you? And places and things, some of them fantastic. And while you are in the dream it all seems real doesn’t it. Doesn’t it? When the monster chases you, you run. When the pretty girl smiles at you, you get excited. When bread is getting baked, you smell it. There is also something called a lucid dream where you know that you are dreaming while in the dream, which frees your fears, and you have no worry nothing can happen to "me" so you try to fly or whatever. Either way you wake up in your bed and realize that all those people and events were not real, at least in the way you say that this coffee house is real. The dream might have had meaning, or been intuitive or showed you something, but you don't think you actually did somethng. At least not in the way you think you do things here. True?
Q True.
A OK. While in your dream those people were real . You were not lucid to know that you were dreaming, thus you thought the dream monster chasing you was a real monster, chasing a real you. But the real you, at least in comparison to your night dream, was asleep in your bed, nice and safe. Thus everything in the dream was a lie, every single thing and experience, except the fact that you were sleeping on your bed dreaming. Let me say that again. Everything in the dream was a lie, even the dream you in it, but the fact it was dreamed was true. The entire dream comes from the real you, which from the standpoint of the dream is the only thing that exists, and although there may be the great appearance of meaning in your dream there is only one. It was dreamed.
Q Oh no…does that mean…
A Yes. I’m here to tell you that what you thought of and have been conditioned to believe about you and your world is the same. It is all a dream, a movie, and not real- at least not the way you have been conditioned to believe. The life you have lived, events that have happened, and the future you hope to attain are nothing but dreams. Everything keeps telling you: it’s real, it’s real. But have you stopped long enough to check for sure? Who questions their reality? People who know something weird is gonig on here and they decide once and for all to find out what.
While you are in your night dreams you think that all the people you meet are real people. More amazingly, one of your dream characters can not break free from the dream, can not recognize who is the dreamer. The only way for one of your own dream characters to find out what is really going on, is for you to be lucid and then go and explain it to them. Similar to what happens in the movie the 13th Floor. But that’s not really much help to any of your dream characters. They can not “come to life” “have a life of their own” or leave the dream or whatever. They have “existence” so to speak as long as you stay asleep and keep dreaming. Once you wake up in your bed, they are gone as if they never existed, because they didn’t except as a thought in your sleeping mind. They could only recognize that they are in a dream, that it is not real, and that they too are just a part of the dream, and the only thing that is real is the thing that dreams. It will realize that the dreamer is true, but everything is dreams is not. It can not see absolute (you in bed) as a form or thing for it is something beyond its comprehension, but it could grasp the idea of it. As for “Waking Up” your dream characters can not wake up, because they never went to sleep. The character is just a character, the absolute behind it is the one asleep. Form never went to sleep, for this form is just a dream manifestation. The thing that dreamed this form, me, into existence, it went to sleep not me the thing. Absolute wakes up, not the things in the dream, they can just see the truth of what they are, which is of course the thoughts of the very thing that dreams. Waking up is really just to become lucid in the dream, as when you know in night dreaming that you are dreaming, thus you gain a great sense of detachment from the “you” participating in the dream world. Same thing here.
So what is a glimpse?
A Well it is not really a glimpse for from the standpoint of the absolute because there is nothing to glimpse. The best metaphor I have seen explained it this way. Imagine you are in a dream, then for a second, you awake and see you are your body laying on the bad, but then instantly fall back to sleep into the same dream. Say the dream you gets a remembrance of this being awake thing, and feels it has a glimpse of what being awake means. The problem is the dream you, just like everything else in the dream, is false. There is no dream you, thus the dream you can not awake to anything- the glimpse was really showing it that it did not really exist, was just a projection from something else, and in fact everything in the dream was a projection from something else. There can be no awake experience for the character in the dream. But you find that the “you” on the bed is also a dream, and awakening is just seeing that there is no “you” to be awake. It is the realization that you are nothing but a shadow of what you really are, and everything in your environment- seen or unseen is a projection from the same what you are. A glimpse really means that you and reality disappear, die, no longer exist.
Q That sounds weird.
A It is weird. Hey this realization stuff is not about love or bliss or no more problems, that is something else, a place of light or unity- but it is still in the dream. Just a different dream. Realization is about busting up the whole idea that anything is going on here at all. It's not happy, it's fucking crazy. Here I am, knowing it’s all an illusion, knowing what I always thought I was is nothing but a dream character, and everything and everyone around are just dream characters (like actors), fake persons. Nothing anyone does or says matters. However I interact with them as if they were real, as if what they do does matter, offering help or guidance or laughter or whatever. Taht is known by the name Controlled Folly. The realized know it’s a dream, a script, yet they feel comfortable getting to know the dream and not needing to change it. You can finally turn around to look at the dream as it is and get to know it intimately. It’s weird really. Oh sure at first most everyone when they even get a glimpse of this sinks into depression, and why wouldn’t you. The very thing that has been running every action in your life, promising you the moon, is now seen as an imposter with nothing it can give to you ever. But once past that, the dream gets very interesting. Oh there are still problems and difficulties but those get interesting too. We just follow the script with no idea where it actually leads, we just flow hence the Taoist phrase “I don’t do, but everything gets done.” In and out of the dream at the same time. All absolute, and you walk around like a zombie oblivious to what is happening, all focus on the dream then there is no freedom to act because we will be trying to protect ourself or better ourself all the time.
Q but you need to be helping all these people…
A When a character in a movie you are watching gets sick you don’t go running to your family and friends in despair hoping to find help because Kevin Costner is sick in a movie.
Q Well no, of course not. But yet i do see you helping people.
A Not really. I may be a pointer to show something right in front of their nose, or perhaps they are right at the door of the abyss and need some help as to having a friend know what that experience is like- cuz if you have never done it you have no idea what they are going through in that moment. Or maybe someone has tried everything to free themself from something they can't see, but in one journey i can see it- and boom. But lets say i don't go looking for people to help. If i did that I would be sadly dissapointed. Most people have no interest in help, even if they say they want it. Real help is to rid them of the false roots they have been clinging to and very few want to do that. They want the magic wand waved and the super happy bliss they have been promised. Why spirituality such a big business today. All promise and no delivery, but no one really sees their is no delivery. So if i don't rush the screen to save Kevin Costner, then why do it in this movie? When a movie actor is really tired of being a robot in a movie, then lets say they will bump into me. now. The actor no longer thinks their role is what they really are. An awake person realizes that they are an actor, thus they can be the perfect actor and fulfill their role totally and without bias. That is why an awake person could be a teacher, a healer, or a baker or a submarine captain, they know they have a script and just follow and enjoy the show fully. They will only know the script for the moment (the scene they are in) so they have no idea of where the story is heading. They know page 30 of the script but not page 54. That is why I now see my role here as a director's assistant like I mentioned before. Simply helping the actors get a better look at the script so tehy can make it to their set cue on time, with less hassle on the way there.
Q So what about all those awake people I have been studying with? The ones all over the world?
A There can be no awake people. Every person is a fake character in a dream that at best can only see that they are a character in a dream, then act as that character perfectly until the dream ends. But they don't have to be holy or wear robes or whatever. They just fill thier role and that's that. Granted form will begin to align more closely to a optimal human, begin functioing in a new way- but not much needs to be said about it until someone is actually in that position, otherwise it is just confusing. Anyone saying anything else, is knowingly or unknowingly, lying to you.
Q But what about my life?
The script may be simple, but we begin to see how necessary it is for the dream, how it fits into everyone’s else’s scripts (like the realization of George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life). That is really the truth of that movie, just live your script and the script will give you far more pleasure than any other re-write the mind could possibly think of. Since God is the architect of the script, if you are trying to change it, in effect you are saying God is wrong. But how can that be? Enlightenment is just finding out that no one exists, not even you, and that everything that happens here is not caused by anyone or anything, it just appears spontaneously and perfectly. You only need to see this natural, simple and obvious fact. Which is why everyone misses it, whose ego’s are trained to look for hard, difficult and answers to deep questions.
Somehow most know that their world is wrong and their own character is wrong, and some spend a lot of their time now with these 3-d simulation games on the net. You know where you make and become some other character in a fictional world, or a world just like this one. One sim game I saw advertised itself as this, “A 3-d world that makes you feel you are actually there…you can be who you want to be without the hassle…create a new you…a safe exciting way to let your imagination run wild.” Why not just do that with the very character you have now? Because people see the sim them as not real- thus has great possabilities, but the them clicking the keys as real, and thus trapped.
Everything inside the bubble of perception is false. None of it is true. However there is a force from outside of the bubble, called intent, that can manifest in the bubble. Certain things have been left in the bubble, like pyramids or ancient teachings, that are an arrow pointing at an escape route. These things from the outside is all that is true (like David in the movie Pleasantville) and it is through this opening of intent, or manifestation of intent in the dream, that one can find the truth of the bubble. Of course one can learn some of the secrets of how the dream generally operates to let one’s character seeming flow easier, I say easier because…oh no, just come this spot and see it for yourself, I won’t have to explain anything to you.
So what is it you are offering again?
A That is all I have to offer. Are you willing to go looking for the Truth? If so, welcome to the coolest adventure you could ever imagine.